ASIC said it wants responsible entities to have minimum risk management practices and procedures in place, that are of an international standard. ...

Pharos Financial Group’s Proactive Portfolios has launched five new managed fund models separately managed account options through the WealthPortal website to simplify ad...

LIM Advisors has issued a second open letter about the AMP Capital China Growth Fund, urging unitholders to vote for the wind-up of the fund at the extraordinary general ...

Customer satisfaction with the big four banks has declined in five out of the last six months and is now 1.9 percentage points below last July....

The Federal Opposition has called on the Government to re-enter discussions to develop a bipartisan approach to the objective of superannuation....

Students and graduates saw investment banking as being more glamorous than financial planning, according to the Financial Planning Association....

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The Federal Government will give priority to reintroducing the LIF legislation with some room for negotiation around the accompanying regulatory environment....

LIC Australian Foundation Investment Company has reported a drop in profits from 2015 to 2016, but its return outperformed the index over 10 years. ...

Listed fund manager, WAM Capital Limited, reported their profits soared 85.7 per cent to their all-time high of $132.3 million for 30 June 2016. ...

UBS’ microcap fund has been added to Macquarie’s wrap, which would give investors access to an actively managed diversified portfolio of companies that were not dependen...

Australians would now be able to invest in the EURO STOXX 50 for the first time, thanks to ANZ’s new ETF, ESTX. ...

Investors and fund managers need to reassess portfolios benchmarks, amid the low yields, according to QIC. ...

Absolute return strategies were named as the next major investor trend by Henderson’s head of alternative Australian equities. ...

Researchers from the University of Adelaide have discovered that stock market behaviour can be predicted and mathematically described in the same way as the lifetime of a...

A firm has launched a series of packages for accountants who wanted technical training, compliance documents, and templates for their limited AFSLs. ...

Big insurer TAL has launched a major television brand awareness campaign in an effort to restore trust in the life insurance industry....

AMP Life lost its appeal against an earlier decision of the NSW Supreme Court which saw it excluded from voting the units it held in the AGF at the EGM....

SME owners would be the more likely victims of the Government’s Budget super changes, according to accountancy consultant, Grant Field....

The Federal Opposition has named a former ACT chief minister and social worker, Katy Gallagher, as the shadow minister for Financial Services and Small Business....